Trae (Trey) Stephens

There's a big Honda factory on the west side of Columbus.

Intel has been trying to open a chip fab on the east side of Columbus.

Automotive OEMs, there's a lot of production that left Dayton that's coming back, glass manufacturing, things like that.

And so there is still kind of the industrial blood in the water, but

Some of it will be reskilling people and bringing more of that back through education, through continuing education programs.

Kind of the craziest thing to me about the way that we've been approaching this for the last decade is that the government could not have gotten this more wrong.

If you go back to Obama and you look at the upskilling programs that they were doing, it was all software development.

They were running coding boot camps, teaching people how to write code.

What's the first job that's going to be replaced by AI?

That's like, that is the thing that is going to be hit the hardest at like mid-tier, lower tier, mid-tier software developers.

Like we should have been training people to build stuff.

Like we have to re-industrialize.

This is like absolutely critical for our country.

And we just totally, you know, swing in a mist on that for the last 10 years.

Well, I mean, we're going to implement all sorts of technology in our production system.

Like, there will be autonomy.

There will be robotics.

All of that is absolutely true.

But we're also going to employ thousands of people that you need to be able to do that.

If you're building up, like, a simple, you know,